{"id":17886,"date":"2011-09-21T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17886"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:56:17","slug":"college-football-against-the-spread-picks-oklahoma-state-cowboys-at-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-against-the-spread-picks-oklahoma-state-cowboys-at-texas-am-aggies-17886\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Against the Spread Picks: Oklahoma State Cowboys at Texas A&M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 7 Oklahoma State Cowboys at No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies
\nSaturday, 9\/24\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 63
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 69.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Oklahoma State Cowboys have won three straight meetings against the Texas A&M Aggies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oklahoma State will be meeting Texas A&M when the two teams are ranked in the AP Top 10 for the first time in series history Saturday.\u00a0 The Cowboys escaped with a 38-35 win last year as 2.5-point home favorites, as they were out-gained by a considerable 182-yard margin.\u00a0 One of the key things to watch for in this contest is the road team being sluggish, playing away from Stillwater for the second consecutive week, while finishing last week\u2019s game at 3:35 a.m. due to weather delays.\u00a0 Oklahoma State did come out with a 59-33 win over Tulsa as 13.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The program is 10-5 ATS versus Big 12 teams the last two years.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are 7-8 in Big 12 openers, including a 4-2 mark under current head coach Mike Gundy.\u00a0 Oklahoma State has one of the more potent offensive attacks in the country, led by quarterback Brandon Weeden, who sits atop the national rankings with 384.7 passing yards a game.\u00a0 He is 14-2 as a starter and a perfect 7-0 away from Boone Pickens Stadium.\u00a0 Wide receiver Justin Blackmon continues to be his main target, catching 129 passes over his last 15 games.\u00a0 Defensively, the team checks in at No. 92 nationally, allowing 413 yards a game.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M leads this series, 17-9, but has dropped three consecutive games, which is the longest losing streak for the program against Oklahoma State.\u00a0 Running back Cyrus Gray figures to loom large in this game, looking to move his 100-yard rushing streak to 10 games, which would tie a school record.\u00a0 \u201cIn my heart, I really want to win this game,\u201d commented Gray.\u00a0 The offensive line in front of him has been a major part of the team staring the season 3-0, failing to allow a sack, as the unit weights in at well over 300 pounds on average.\u00a0 Texas A&M is 3-1 ATS as a home favorite of 3.5 to 7 points and the \u2018under\u2019 is 3-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Aggies should be primed to break their losing streak in this series due to bringing back 18 of 22 starters from a year ago.\u00a0 Quarterback Ryan Tannehill is really starting to take hold of the position, throwing for more than 300 yards for the second time in his career in the team\u2019s 37-7 win over the Idaho Vandals last week, but failing to cover the 36-point spread.\u00a0 Since 1997, the last seven meetings have been decided by five points or less.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Aggies due to their 6-0 ATS mark in conference play, while the Cowboys are 1-7 ATS as underdogs.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. 7 Oklahoma State Cowboys at No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies Saturday, 9\/24\/11, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ABC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Texas A&M -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Texas A&M -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 63 Current Total:\u00a0 69.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oklahoma State will be meeting Texas A&M when the two teams are ranked in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3187,5126,3548,1141,3711,1145],"class_list":["post-17886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brandon-weeden","tag-cyrus-gray","tag-justin-blackmon","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-ryan-tannehill","tag-texas-am-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17887,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions\/17887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}